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February, 2024

• 1 February

  High Costs And Fraud Risk Drive Sellers’ Dissatisfaction With Card Processing, J.D. Power Finds

  

  Small businesses tend to be less satisfied with their credit and debit card processing than they are with processing for alternative payments, according to a study by J.D. Power. Based on a 1,000-point scale, with 1,000 being the highest score, merchant-satisfaction scores for credit card processing averaged 692, while scores …

January, 2024

• 4 January

  Talus Pay’s New Year Starts With Two Acquisitions

  

  Payments provider Talus Pay announced two acquisitions on Thursday, indicating it acquired Clarus Merchant Services and Jobox.ai in separate deals. Total annual payments volume for the newly combined company total $9 billion for more than 22,000 U.S. merchants. Dallas-based Talus Pay says Clarus Merchant Services, based in Gaithersburg, Md., provides …

December, 2023

• 6 December

  Pidgin Partners With Modern Banking Systems to Bring Real-Time Payments to Small Banks

  

  Payments-platform provider Pidgin Inc. will work with Modern Banking Systems, a provider of core bank-processing technology, in an effort to bring real-time payments capability to community banks. Pidgin’s platform supports real-time processing through multiple payment rails, including FedNow and The Clearing House Payments Co.’s Real-Time Payments network. The deal was …

November, 2023

• 14 November

  Some Merchants Take Issue with the CCCA

  

  Small businesses claim they have legitimate concerns that their larger counterparts will be the beneficiaries of lower card acceptance costs should the Credit Card Competition Act become law, argues the Small Business Payments Alliance, a trade organization recently formed by the Electronic Payments Coalition. Among the concerns about how the …

October, 2023

• 10 October

  GoDaddy Says It Will Integrate Early Warning’s New Paze Online Checkout, Now Coming in 2024

  

  Paze, an online wallet still in development, will be available to merchants using GoDaddy Inc.’s Web services. Paze is available for testing to select U.S. businesses on the GoDaddy platform. In March, at the announcement of Paze, Early Warning Services LLC, its developer, said full availability would arrive this autumn, …
• 5 October

  Small-Screen Shopping Set To Dominate 2023 Holiday Spending

  

  One of the first forecasts for the upcoming 2023 holiday shopping period predicts that mobile devices will overtake desktop ones for e-commerce for the first time. Adobe Inc., in its Nov. 1-to-Dec. 31 holiday-shopping forecast, released Thursday, forecasts that U.S. online holiday sales will reach $221.8 billion, a 4.8% increase …

September, 2023

• 21 September

  How Failed Payments, Slow Payments, and Errors Bedevil Organizations

  

  Consumers have come to expect an electronic payment to happen in seconds with zero or few errors, but for organizations the situation is a little more fraught. At least that’s the feedback from a new report, “The State of Payment Operations 2023,” from Modern Treasury Corp., a payments and financial …
• 11 September

  Parking Is the First Step for Hyundai Pay

  

  Step one for Hyundai Pay, the in-car payment service debuting in the 2024 Kona crossover, is enabling payments for parking while sitting in the driver’s seat. Step two is broadening its capabilities and making it an integral part of the vehicle, Olabisi Boyle, Hyundai Motor North America vice president of …

August, 2023

• 29 August

  Grubhub Deploys Amazon’s Just Walk Out Tech on Campus

  

  Students at Loyola University Maryland are the first to use Amazon.com Inc.’s Just Walk Out technology in a Grubhub partnership. The tech enables students, faculty, and staff to shop and walk out with their purchases billed within the app. Funding sources can be a meal plan, account balance, or credit …
• 25 August

  New SEC Rule Ups the Ante on Data Breach Disclosures

  

  With the Securities and Exchange Commission mandating public companies victimized by a cyberbreach publicly disclose the breach, businesses need to be more diligent in keeping out cybercriminals, as disclosure of such information can subject them to greater scrutiny and potential liability. The rule, which the SEC passed in July, requires …